Drama Games: The Candy Game
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Aims and Purpose
- To get your participants/players to know one another.
- Practice listening skills.
- Encourage self-disclosure.
- Build trust.
Materials/Resources
- A bag of candy large enough for so that each participant/player can take between 1 - 5 pieces of candy.
Order of Activity
- With the group quietly sitting in a circle (you played the waiting game right?) pass around the bag of candy and ask each player to each take between 1 - 5 pieces of candy but not to eat them.
- Once the bag has gone around and every player has some candy, explain that everyone is going to reveal to the group one fact about themselves for each piece of candy that they have taken.
- Go around the circle and have each participant say out loud to the group a fact about themselves for each piece of candy that they have.
- Insist that everyone listens. Their must be NO talking over the person whose turn it is.
Notes on the Game
- Remind participants that the facts don't have to too revealing, they can keep to simple information such as "I am wearing polka-dot socks." or "I have blue eyes." Small revelations can feel huge for some people.
- Typically the more outgoing participants will take more pieces of candy and so will speak more, let them speak but don't let them dominate.
- Only allow the players to eat the candy when they have given their facts.
Extensions to the Game
- Give the revelations a theme such as tell us about your vacation or tell us about the gifts you received for your last birthday.
- Make the revelations specific to a topic. Such as for each piece of candy that you have tell us one fact about the American revolution or name an element on the periodic table.
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